Soulstealers: The Chinese Sorcery Scare of 1768Harvard University Press, 1990年1月1日 - 317 頁 Midway through the reign of the Ch’ien-lung emperor, Hungli, in the most prosperous period of China’s last imperial dynasty, mass hysteria broke out among the common people. It was feared that sorcerers were roaming the land, clipping off the ends of men’s queues (the braids worn by royal decree), and chanting magical incantations over them in order to steal the souls of their owners. In a fascinating chronicle of this epidemic of fear and the official prosecution of soulstealers that ensued, Philip Kuhn provides an intimate glimpse into the world of eighteenth-century China. |
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... clipping " images of popular sorcery lore . Whoever was Hungli's source of information from the South had heard of both the masons of Te - ch'ing and the monks of Hsiao - shan . Here too are linked , for the first time in an imperial ...
... clipping - victims who would then not report the matter . " The soldiers were sent back to their units to face the music . Two other cases , however , were cause for concern . One commoner , Liu , feared that his queue had been clipped ...
... clipping by Chang Erh , who had found a clipped queue in Kuan's possessions . The case was quickly taken out of provincial hands and brought before the grand councillors at the summer capital . Their Excellencies must have used ...